Gay Rights. Your Opinion

[Aouzy]

After being in a same-sex relationship, I can say there is nothing wrong with being gay or bisexual. I can understand if someone is not used to seeing same-sex couples. But it's not bad at all.

[Kamina]

After being in a same-sex relationship, I can say there is nothing wrong with being gay or bisexual. I can understand if someone is not used to seeing same-sex couples. But it's not bad at all.

True True... i recently changed my sexuality to bi sexual and ive been getting a lot of beef... its glad to know there are people who dont care what you are! [size=78%] [/size]

[drakewithout]

I really just wish gay rights would be pushed for more in the south of the united-states . I really would like to get married some day.

[BakaFawkes]

I'm a straight Christian from the south (you wouldn't be able to tell though, I have no accent, and my family is international). I think that the whole gay rights argument has been blown way out of proportion and has become more of a social statement than an actual movement. Lots of extreme Christians don't want gay people to marry, because it is a sin. Lots of  Honestly, I believe that you should be able to make that choice yourself, but it is still sinful. The unhealthily flamboyant gay "other F-word"s as some people would put it, seem to only add fuel to the fire around where I am. It's an unhealthy downward trend I only compare to that of "normal" people and furries.

If it was my decision, a "swing vote" if you will... I would say, "go ahead and marry the family dog if you want, but that's your decision alone and whatever there is to follow."

[anoni]

It doesn't really matter whether it's sinful really, lots of things are sinful. Working on a Sunday is sinful (Exodus 35:2), Wearing clothes of more than two types of thread is sinful (Leviticus 19:19), it's a holy commandment not to take the Lords name in vain, so if you've ever said "god dammit" that's sinful too. It's very difficult not to be sinful.

[White Wolf Guardian]

As I've said previously in Random Thread and some various other threads, the Old Testament can by principle of Christian logic, be thrown out of any and all equations because Christians commonly believe that the Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 "prove" that the Bible is true. However, in doing so, the apocryphal chapters of the old testament have NOT been considered due to "canonical issues" thus, we will never know which old testament can be true. The one that "makes sense" is not a good enough reason, because possibly there's a canonically matched altered new testament that goes with the apocryphal old testament. By the doctrine introduced by Jesus, the old testament was discarded permanently and nobody is supposed to follow it following faiths outside of Judaism anyways.

[Hycanith]

It doesn't really matter whether it's sinful really, lots of things are sinful. Working on a Sunday is sinful (Exodus 35:2), Wearing clothes of more than two types of thread is sinful (Leviticus 19:19), it's a holy commandment not to take the Lords name in vain, so if you've ever said "god dammit" that's sinful too. It's very difficult not to be sinful.

Don't forget that it is also sinful to trim your beard (Leviticus 19:27) and sell land permanently (Leviticus 25:23).

The sins of others does not give one a reason to treat them poorly. If I were to be the devil's advocate here and say that being homosexual is a sin, there is still no justification in committing hate crimes and spewing profanities in the direction of homosexual people I meet.

I do not believe that homosexuality is a sin, nor do I believe that wearing clothing of two different kinds of threads or selling a house is a sin! People need to remember that the bible was written with the best knowledge of the time, and depicted relevant practices to the time it was written in. Have we not advanced since then?

The seclusion of homosexuals in laws or rules simply fuels hatred. Is wrath not a deadly sin? Don't you think that saying "gay is ok" and pushing gay equality through media and other means would persuade people to drop the anti-gay mentality, and stop worse sins such as hate crimes and violence? Anti-gay laws don't exist because the bible says it is a "sin". They exist because people hate homosexuality. When is it okay to hate another human?


If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. (John 4:20)

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.  (John 2:9)

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.    (Proverbs 10:12)

[kalan]

To judge gay people because its a sin is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. I'm no expert on the bible so i cant qoute the specific verses but i do know it says let he who is without sin cast the first stone, well i guess i cant cast the first stone. I also know it say all have sinned and fallin short of the glory of god, and wiegh not one sin against another. Now im just a simple country wolf but it seems to me that what its trying to tell us is none of us are perfect. So when i hear someone jump up on there christian soap box and start preaching on how being gay is a sin i have to fight the urge to knock them off said soap box.

As far as gay rights go why do we have to have gay rights and black rights and womens rights, why cant we just have human rights

[White Wolf Guardian]

Okay, just trying to reinforce the idea here, Leviticus as well as most of the insane rules that don't have any realistic application in modern times, are part of the defunct Old Testament anyways. People who use the Old Testament aren't even really following the faith accurately.

[BakaFawkes]

The thing everyone seems to get wrong (including other Christians) is that we aren't the ones to judge. I don't look at anyone with any type of bias. Christians love to call out people on what they do wrong and act like they're superheroes even though they're becoming the actual problem.


(Seriously now? Is it even possible to be homophobic and part of the furry fandom?)


I'm not a Biblical historian, nor am I a pastor or a missionary, I just know what I've been told, and that means I don't see anyone different from one another because we're all humans in the same boat (Earth) and both religious and nonreligious people need to see this. There are gay Christians and straight atheists, yet people love to draw a line at the vice-versa.

[anoni]

Okay, just trying to reinforce the idea here, Leviticus as well as most of the insane rules that don't have any realistic application in modern times, are part of the defunct Old Testament anyways. People who use the Old Testament aren't even really following the faith accurately.

Absolutely, but the gay rights thing also comes from Leviticus

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. (NKJ, Leviticus 18:22)

If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. (NKJ, Leviticus 20:13)

So if you're willing to believe in that part of the bible, then you should be willing to believe the rest from Leviticus

[MrRazot]

Looks like we're all going to have to burn all our cotton/polyester clothing

[White Wolf Guardian]

I'm trying to say that because of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" the altered story apocryphal chapters make it impossible to follow the old testament at all because there is no way anyone can know which version is the real version. No secondary thought required, those who use the old testament are not protestant or catholic, in fact that would be pagan.